Artist preserves history of Native American trail trees
These directional markers created by bending saplings once signaled such things as where to cross a river and where to enter and exit trails.
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Tracking trail trees: Looking for horizontal shapes in a vertical world
Native Americans once bent saplings to grow into directional markers. They signaled such things as where to cross a river and where to enter and exit trails. There are likely only a few hundred original trail trees left in the Great Lakes area. Some are over 200 years old.
Source: greatlakesecho.org
Earth Matters: Oddly shaped trees in our woodlands may hold a human story
In my youth, tromping through the deciduous woodlands of Ohio and Pennsylvania with family and friends, we occasionally came upon strange-looking trees. Their shapes were so contorted that we found it hard to imagine how they could have gotten that...
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